- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 31, 2013
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There's considerable charm in this medical-drama concoction, which comes with the usual generous supply of spectacular brain disorders nobody you know will ever get--and in Mr. Pasquale's Dr. Cole, a confident, dedicated surgeon.
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Do No Harm, a modern spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde," sounds lame. Yet it is so fast-paced and slickly produced, it could just be your new guilty pleasure.
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Do No Harm is a resolutely lightweight entertainment whose silliness isn't necessarily a deal breaker--if you turn off the right parts of your brain, you might enjoy it.
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Far more sentimental than thrilling--there are no real monsters under this hospital bed--it plays more like a mash-up of "A Gifted Man" and "The B- in Apartment 23."
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Do No Harm isn't so bad. It isn't so good, either.
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Cole is good and Price is evil. And neither one of them is remotely interesting.
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Do No Harm expects us to accept the dual-personality premise without grounding it in anything believable.
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Created by David Schulner, the series has done itself a disservice by hewing away from the fantastic and toward the mundane.
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It's simply not coherent enough to sustain weekly interest.
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Show creator David Schulner has failed to craft a workable TV concept, but he does keep the hours tumbling forward effectively, bringing in a number of subplots--Jason's wounded ex-girlfriend, a hostile co-worker trying to bring him down--to distract us from the nonsense.
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Because Do No Harm wants to be more than just some shlocky Jekyll and Hyde--remake it has made Ian a very bad man, and yet he is not nearly bad enough.
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The gimmick undercuts what could have been a decent doctor show with benefits --that is, a solid romance between lead characters Dr. Jason Cole (Steven Pasquale) and Dr. Lena Solis (Alana De La Garza).
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Do No Harm's biggest fault, besides lackluster dialogue, is its overall air of deep insecurity, a quality that's unfortunately too common on network dramas.
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Do No Harm is a ridiculous show with plenty of lines of groaner dialogue.
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This show is so far-fetched it makes "24" look like political reporting and "Lost" seem like a nature documentary.
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The only thing hokier than the show's preposterous premise is the writing.
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If only Harm had stuck with "strange" and not barreled right on past to "stupid."
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Do No Harm is very busy and very dumb, lobbing ridiculous obstacles at Jason at full speed, both in the workplace (the onslaught of unidentifiable hospital jargon rivals House at its most ludicrous) and at home (Ian ostensibly shattered Jason's marriage by beating his wife).
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Part Dr. Jekyll, part Mr. Hyde and all dumb.
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The show is laughable, but I suspect the writers are dead serious.
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The show might work if Steven Pasquale had a script that allowed for bolder contrasts. [2 Feb 2013, p.40]
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A laughable medical thriller that does irreparable harm to one's belief in such storytelling staples as logic and credibility.
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Pasquale gives the Jason/Ian role his best shot, but he is dragged down by the bad writing and ridiculous transition from good guy to bad guy.
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The Cole/Price problem just continues to come across as ridiculous, rather than serious. It doesn't keep the viewer invested in the character at all.
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Do not watch.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 59
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Mixed: 6 out of 59
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Negative: 15 out of 59
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